Peter Hokanson <pho### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Since this is my first post, I figured I had to take on the epic "Chrome
> Sphere on Checkered Plane" that begins all good POV-ing careers.  This
> particular version uses scattering media (type 4), focal blur, blurred
> reflection, and radiosity.  Needless to say, it took a long time to
> render (I'd hazard to guess it was around 20 hours for this resolution -
> I'd give more precise data, but the computer crashed sometime after it
> completed but before I got to access it again).
>
> Because I'm impatient, some of the quality settings were inadequate.  I
> got rid of most of them with some simple GIMPing - despeckle tackled the
> persistent focal blur artifacts that kept occuring quite well, but the
> image isn't vanilla :(  Name and date were also added with the GIMP.
> Nothing else was changed.
>
> Enjoy!

This is one of the best RSOCP images I have seen in a while. I like the
camera angle and the tiles look really good. This is what raytracing was
made for..

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